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Plural of continuation

regular plural

The plural of continuation is continuations.

Forms of continuation

Singularcontinuation /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
Pluralcontinuations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Continuations in a sentence

  • Some magazines use the back-of-the-book merely for story “jumps” (continuations of articles from the feature well).2014, Christopher D. Benson, Charles F. Whitaker, Magazine Writing. From the entry back of the book
  • The greatest difficulty undoubtedly will be in finding the second move continuations.1961, Kenneth S. Howard, How to Solve Chess Problems, page 137. From the entry man
  • The set of all the analytic continuations of the given element f(z) is called the complete analytic function.1995, Valentin I. Ivanov, Michael K. Trubetskov, Handbook of Conformal Mapping with Computer-Aided Visualization, CRC Press, page 26. From the entry analytic continuation
  • Not only do Austenians buy and read these books, but they maintain a lively conversation, in person and online, about sequels, continuations, adaptations, and completions.2003, Marjorie Garber, Quotation Marks, Routledge, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry Austenian
  • You don’t need to maintain state, or partition execution into different objects that then you can chain together (one executes the other on completion — chained continuations).2016 January 15, Mark Papadakis, “Coroutines and Fibers. Why and When”, in Medium. From the entry chain

Meaning of continuation

  1. noun The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession.
  2. noun That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
  3. noun A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.

Full definition of continuation

Questions about the plural of continuation

What is the plural of continuation?
The plural of continuation is continuations.
Is continuation countable?
Continuation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: continuation (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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